PHYS 387 - Gravity

Institution:

SUNY College at Geneseo

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Description:

This course will cover Newtonian gravity, special and general relativity and cosmology. Some of the topics include Newton's law of gravitation, Keplerian orbits, special relativity with spacetime diagrams and metrics, generalization to accelerated frames, the Equivalence Principle, curvature of spa- cetime, classical tests of GR, stationary and spinning black holes, large scale structure of the universie, big bang theory and the cosmological model. Prerequisites: PHYS 311 or permission of the department. Credits: 3(3-0).

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.geneseo.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 245-5211

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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